A Traumatized City Begins to Bury Its Dead
A group of firefighters lowered unidentified bodies into a mass grave outside Tacloban on Thursday, six days after the city was heavily damaged by Typhoon Haiyan.
Bill de Blasio has become something of a sensation in Italy, but the country has long been a singular force in shaping his life, and an identity he claimed as his family was falling apart.
A group of firefighters lowered unidentified bodies into a mass grave outside Tacloban on Thursday, six days after the city was heavily damaged by Typhoon Haiyan.
Images from the Great Bull Run in Conyers, Ga., which included an event called the Tomato Royale.
In the news: the female orgasm, knee ligaments and birthing babies. Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.
The cultural movement called Afrofuturism is the subject of a new show at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
The Paraguayan People’s Army is evolving from a ghostlike irritant for the authorities into a broader security threat.
Typhoon Haiyan, which cut a destructive path across the Philippines on Friday, is believed by some climatologists to be the strongest storm to ever make landfall. Thousands are feared dead or missing.
Notable works for sale at Wednesday night’s contemporary evening auction at Sotheby’s in New York.
A dance party on wheels attracts even roller disco denizens who never gave up.
Public School took top prize at the 10th annual Fashion Fund dinner.
The area’s population, historically dominated by blacks, has diversified at an even faster clip than Central Harlem as a whole.
A fastidious Brazilian gets the house of his dreams, with ocean views and not a speck of dust in sight.
Westport? So ’90s. TriBeCa? Over. Brownstone Brooklyn is ground zero for aspirational living now. Just count the ads.
Your guide to the year’s most important meal, with our best recipes, videos, techniques and tricks.
A 1903 house in New Jersey, a stone cottage near Dallas and a midcentury modern near Detroit are featured this week.
A red-brick semidetached home in the Rosedale neighborhood of Toronto is on the market for $3.7 million.
“Masterpiece” is a new Italian reality show in which writers compete to have their work published.
The last full-time employee in the tallest building in Rhode Island has grown accustomed to the 26 stories of emptiness.
Mouloudia Algiers, called the beating heart of the nation, is deeply tied to Algeria’s history and politics. The club is by far the most popular team in the country.
Some of the notable works at the Christie’s sale of postwar and contemporary art on Tuesday night.
Inside two sushi restaurants: a new place leaning toward poppy neo-disco in the East Village, and an older, more sedate establishment in Midtown.
As the populations of many former industrial cities dwindle, buildings are being razed rather than raised to better position the cities for growth.
Chinese consumers were expected to spend more than $5 billion Monday for Singles’ Day, which is considered the world’s biggest e-commerce event.
In what may serve as a cautionary tale for other cities in the developing world, the Brazilian boom town’s rising prosperity exists alongside a darker reality.
Sometimes, to surpass the competition, an athlete must strive for elevation, literally.
Scenes from the two productions now running in repertory on Broadway.
In 36 hours, 33 inmates were killed and more than 200 were injured in February 1980.
Some American Catholics in the church’s conservative wing say Pope Francis has left them feeling abandoned and deeply unsettled.
At Zingone Brothers, operating as a grocery on Manhattan’s Upper West Side for 78 years, the regulars are treated like they are part of the family.
Jack Mitchell’s photographs captured a history of the arts in the late 20th century.
A deadly storm left the seaside city of Tacloban in ruins.
Members of the legendary choir Leipzig that is being reshaped by the ever-earlier onset of puberty.
Mr. Driver offers a respite from cookie-cutter beauty.
The National Park Service is looking for tenants for 35 historic buildings at Fort Hancock that can invest in the structures in order to save them.
While Iran enters the nuclear talks with hopes that the West will ease the economic sanctions, its nuclear program cannot be easily turned back.
Gifts that will come in handy for entertaining.
Key advisors in the orbit of New York City’s mayor-elect: the people he met as a city official, a political operative and a Brooklyn parent.
Newburgh, N.Y., with its grand but neglected architecture, is reminiscent of 1980s Brooklyn, before gentrification. The community is working to revitalize the troubled city.
Jaguar’s F-Type roadster is a snarling, clawing animal. It may have its flaws, but the supercharged 495-horsepower V8 engine isn’t one of them.
Mark Morris’s masterwork, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this month, returns to New York as part of the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center.
A historic townhouse with a once-controversial facade is on the market for $9.95 million.
A townhouse in Dobbs Ferry with three bedrooms and a four-bedroom ranch in Sands Point.
The bulldog is no longer just the sports mascot at Fresno State. It has been appropriated by a violent street gang called the Bulldogs, vexing university officials.
In Groveland, a town located near Yosemite National Park, local businesses have not recovered from a wildfire and the government shut down.
The pop-up vegan restaurant operates inside Mama Joy’s during daytime hours in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
In the news: medical marijuana, hepatitis C and contaminated chicken. Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.
At Zingone Brothers, operating as a grocery on Manhattan’s Upper West Side for 78 years, the regulars are treated like they are part of the family.
The title of a Finnish artist’s doctoral thesis is also the name of the home that it inspired.
Damon Winter went behind the scenes with Bill de Blasio in the days leading up to the mayoral election.
A national embrace of plastic surgery is reflected in increasing sales of mannequins with bulging bosoms and cantilevered buttocks, wasp waists and long legs.
After decades of political upheaval and paralysis, Nepal is scheduled to hold national elections on Nov. 19.
In Upstate New York, buyers with activist inclinations are preserving a city, one foreclosed house at a time.
Take a spin around this sunny island off the coast of South America.
Anna Wintour, David Bowie, Karl Lagerfeld and others at MoMA’s annual Film Benefit.
Scenes from the Caribbean island on the 100th anniversary of the poet and politician’s birth.
Bill de Blasio, who was elected to become the first Democratic mayor of New York City in 20 years, will have a far grander stage on which to test the liberal worldview that has been the hallmark of his career.
Europeans are endlessly inventive when it comes to radiator design. Why are Americans lagging behind?
The Canadian actors Paul Gross and Martha Burns redo a Lower East Side loft, preserving the marks of former occupants (and their sewing machines).
After 9/11, a fashion competition was born, with the first award of $200,000 going to the Proenza Schouler designers in 2004. Here’s what some designers are doing now.
Despite Spain’s punishing market, luxury properties like this one near Gaudí‘s Park Güell are showing some resilience.
Voters chose winners in races for mayor, governor and the Republican nomination for a vacant seat in Congress.
Stripping cooking to its raw elements in South Carolina: foraging, hunting, fishing and farming.
Hundreds of forgotten art works were found hidden in a Munich apartment.
Editta Sherman was a celebrity portraitist and longtime resident of the artists’ studios above Carnegie Hall.
Inside the Midtown restaurant that seems to have figured out that some people would rather eat in a theater than a church.
After battling unions and politicians, Ford has reached a settlement allowing it to close its factory in Genk, Belgium. The move comes at a high price for the company, its workers and the community.
The work of enrollment “navigators” in states like Kentucky shows how the federal exchange could work once its many technical problems are solved.
Tens of thousands of New York City Marathon participants crossed through all five boroughs, filling streets and bridges, and drawing crowds of supporters.
Since losing a leg while serving in Afghanistan, Alfredo De Los Santos has become a national champion in the handcycle marathon.
Eye-hand coordination is a critical element of sports. Then again, sometime the hands seem to act on their own.
After 12 years as a backdrop for V.I.P. receptions and high-powered meetings, Gracie Mansion, home of New York’s mayors, is expecting a full-time resident.
Afghanistan’s western border towns with Iran have become veritable zombie villages in recent years — encampments where entire families are shambling addicts.
Students at the Aeroflot Aviation School in Moscow are taught customer service in an attempt to change an industry not known for its national warmth.
The fall foliage brings an abundance of lumberjack plaids and checks.
Here is a slide show of photographs from the past week in New York City and the region. Subjects include: the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, a century-old land dispute and a Halloween parade.
New Yorkers and tourists appeared on the subway in their best costumes for Halloween night.
An asset sale by Sears, a power struggle at a Ukrainian chocolate company and a Russian airline’s effort to improve its customer service.
Residents of Centro do Meio, Brazil, are still dealing with an attack on a soccer field that left two men dead. It began with a yellow card.
Richard Holmes, author of “Falling Upwards,” takes a ride in a balloon.
A look inside the Chelsea home of the “Project Runway” winner and his partner.
The vintage science fiction bookstore Singularity & Co. operates from a small storefront in Brooklyn.
In the news: tainted spices, commuting’s costs and smoking’s quit day. Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.
Art Spiegelman’s work is plumbed for a museum retrospective in New York.
The Robert Glasper Experiment, led by the pianist, performed at the Best Buy Theater to celebrate the band’s new album, “Black Radio 2.”
In a World Series notable for strong pitching and strange blunders, the Red Sox earned the third jewel in their championship crown over the last 10 years, and their eighth over all.
For one family on an epic 23,000-mile journey, home is wherever the VW takes them — so long as their followers keep paying.
The baseball clubhouse is home to the ultimate acknowledgment of victory. Pop that cork.
Alec and Hilaria Baldwin and Coco Rocha were hosts at the Artwalk NY benefit for the Coalition for the Homeless.
In a series of photographs from the Times archives, we take a look at the tense moments after disputed calls by baseball umpires.
A six-bedroom contemporary home in the resort town of Cascais, Portugal, is on the market for $2.24 million dollars.
Readers who had been affected by Hurricane Sandy shared stories of frustrations and silver linings, offering glimpses at the physical, financial and emotional impact that remains.
A contemporary in Santa Fe, N.M.; and a condo in downtown Nashville; and a midcentury modern in McHenry, Ill.
After seeing his house knee-deep in water, New York’s chief urban designer is determined to keep it from happening again.
Greenwich Village’s Halloween Parade was canceled last year because of Hurricane Sandy. Much of its budget was wiped out, too. But after a fund-raising drive, ghouls, zombies and puppets are preparing to strut this year.
Martin J. Walsh, a candidate for mayor of Boston who is a recovering alcoholic, has attracted the support of people in recovery.
At various spots in New York City, fish-and-rice specialists in their 20s and 30s have been making their own mark.
Inside the restaurant that, approaching its 10th anniversary, has remained true to its vision.
The British street artist Banksy has been busy in all the boroughs during his one-month “residency” in New York.
Autumn signifies the opening of the six-month season, when chefs compete to transform quarry into gastronomic bliss.
The International Herald Tribune, the global edition of The New York Times has become The International New York Times. A look at its journey.
Along the highway between Moscow and St. Petersburg — a 12-hour trip by car — one sees great neglected stretches of land that seem drawn backward in time.
For the first time in over a decade, New York City will vote in a new mayor. A look back at the 2013 primary campaign for mayor in New York City, in photographs.
More than 6.5 million Syrians have been displaced by the war, according to the United Nations. The New York Times visited the homes of four of them to hear their stories.
Uncertainty about how an outside attack could affect Syria’s civil war is one of the factors leading to disagreement among Western countries about how to respond.
In a five-part series of reports on young, under-the-radar fashion designers we visit each at a different stage in the process as they prepare for New York Fashion Week.
At age 55, the jockey Russell Baze is still making all the right moves
in a dangerous sport.
More than 50 ways to make use of the things you’re most likely to find in a market or your C.S.A. basket.
New York may be noisier than ever, but pockets of peace exist – if you know where to look. Here is a selection from readers.
Browse archival photographs, video and articles chronicling the city’s quest for quiet.
Revel in the season with a pie (or a tart, or a cobbler). Here are 20 recipes to carry you through the warm months.
Lynda Obst, Mike Vollman, Erik Feig and others help The Times make the next big tent-pole movie.
Times coverage from the late 1960s and the 1970s shows the South Bronx as a crumbling, desolate and dangerous place. Ángel Franco, a Times photographer, revisited neighborhoods featured in that coverage to see how the view has changed.
The mean streets of the borough that rappers like the Notorious B.I.G. crowed about are now hipster havens, where cupcakes and organic kale rule.
A sequence revisiting how Chicago’s Nate Robinson, one of the best at teardrop shots, scored over the Nets’ Brook Lopez in a game at the end of the season.
About 120,000 Syrians are calling the tents and trailers of the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan home, at least for the foreseeable future.
On April 15, the first of two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Here are the stories of the runners, spectators and others seen in this image.
One suspect in the Boston bombings is dead and the second was taken into custody Friday night.
Fred R. Conrad, a New York Times photographer, set up a studio at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show this week and invited Best of Breed winners to pose.
New York City was a vastly different place when Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg gave his first State of the City address in 2002, and his focus has shifted on various issues.
Ray Lewis, Randy Moss and others with Super Bowl experience share the advice they have given their teammates.
European Union officials have struggled to turn things around — debating new treaties, shoring up banks, securing more funding. The people of Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Latvia have dealt with economic troubles in various ways.
Colum McCann reflects on the images — disturbing, inspired and absurd — that shaped our collective consciousness this year.
Forty-two memorable front pages from the past year, picked by editors on the Times news desk who oversee the content, design and production of Page 1.
Mr. Sulzberger shaped the destiny of The New York Times for 34 years as its publisher and as chairman and chief executive of its parent company.
A day-by-day recap of the conventions in Tampa, Fla., and Charlotte, N.C.
Emotional victories, stunning defeats and fierce competition from the Olympic Games.
See the most prominent vocal producer in the music industry, Kuk Harrell, in action, and then listen along with him as members of the girl group Calvillo perform a part of their song “Right Now.”
A selection of Tony Award nominees, including Josh Young from “Jesus Christ Superstar,” perform songs and scenes from this year’s shows.
What has happened after 2,400 technology, Internet and telecom I.P.O.’s.
Interactive charts showing the increasing student debt levels at colleges and universities in the United States.
Tell us how much of an impact President Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage will have on your vote in the 2012 election.
Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic, demonstrates and discusses the role of a conductor.
The players on the Carroll Academy girls basketball team have little experience with organized sports and myriad troubles outside of school.
Times reporters offer analysis of the arguments before the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of the 2010 health care law.
A series profiling people who are functioning normally despite severe mental illness and have chosen to speak out about their struggles.
Apple’s iPhone is a model of American ingenuity, but most of its components are manufactured somewhere else, leading to the decline of other kinds of jobs.
Interactive map of health violations at restaurants in New York
Derek Boogaard fought his way to center ice as one of the N.H.L’s most feared fighters. But the role exposed him to repeated head traumas.
The 317 Apple patents that list Steven P. Jobs among the group of inventors offer a glimpse at his legendary say over the minute details of the company’s products.
From building plans and archival images, we reconstruct the twin towers the way they stood before the attacks.
Photos from the Philippines, Nepal, Myanmar and India.
Listen to New York Times editors, critics and reporters discuss the day’s news and features.